As reported previously, Northumberland County commissioned a report on policing options in the County and the resulting report by StrategyCorp was presented to County Council at their meeting on 18 September. Cobourg Police Chief Paul VandeGraaf spoke in a “delegation” and called it unfair, biased and had a pre-determined outcome. But the County Councillors decided not to follow up with detailed costing – primarily because Policing is not a county responsibility. The only way this can be changed is if the Province passes enabling legislation. In his presentation, Paul got emotional when referring to the human factors – a possible layoff of civilians doing the Criminal record checks. He was also concerned about the stress caused to Officers who might… Read complete articleMore on County Policing Report